Category: FREE: Online Courses, Lectures, Webinars & Tutorials

VIDEO PODCAST | In Episode 1 of this podcast series by Renee Teate of “Becoming a Data Scientist”, she interviews Will Kurt, who talks about his path from English & Literature and Library & Information Science degrees to becoming the Lead Data Scientist at KISSmetrics. Read More

DAY 2 | Spark Summit East 2016 took place last month in NYC. Here is the Day 2 Keynotes video. It begins with Reynold Xin – Chief Architect at Databricks Presenting Real-Time and Spark
It is followed by two other, very good presentations titled – ‘”Leveraging Spark, AWS, And Graph Analytics to Better Protect Customers” and “Data Profiling and Pipeline Processing with Spark – A Journey”’ (58min). Enjoy!

Spark Summit East 2016 took place last week in NYC. Here is the Day 1 Keynotes video. It begins with Matei Zaharia – MIT professor, Databricks co-founder and Creator of Spark – discussing the upcoming release of Spark 2.0.

It is followed by four other, very knowledgeable speakers discussing subjects like ‘Democratizing Spark,’ ‘Enterprise Spark’ and ‘Spark as an Analytics OS.’ (1Hr:12min). Enjoy! Watch Video

Watch a Video Lecture from the NIPS Conference in December on Probabilistic Machine Learning from one of the greats, Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he leads the Machine Learning Group. Read More

Machine learning is a subfield of computer science and artificial intelligence that deals with the construction and study of systems that can learn from data, rather than follow only explicitly programmed instructions (wikipedia).

If you are thinking of doing or becoming a Data Scientist or Advanced Analytics professional, you will absolutely need to master Machine Learning. These 100 Most Popular Talks on Machine Learning topics are a great resource to learn. Review List

This is Part 1 of 8 week Big Data and Hadoop course. The 3 hour Interactive live class covers What is Big Data, What is Hadoop and Why Hadoop? We also understand the details of Hadoop Distributed File System ( HDFS). It goes into the details of concepts like Rack Awareness, Data Replication, Reading and Writing on HDFS. We will also show how to setup the Cloudera VM on your machine. Watch Video”